Stateless Democracy

In the modern understanding of knowledge, the self is
constructed as a controlling subject in distinction from
the “other,” i.e., the nature and the feminine, while these
“others” are objectified. For this reason, the other is controlled
and placed under tyranny. René Descartes, for
example, sought to exclude intuitive, empathic elements
from science and philosophy. This expresses a masculinized
understanding of science. Positivism, too, illustrates
the basis of this understanding of knowledge. Realities are
disconnected from each other, problems are deprived of
any definition, the reasons of problems are sought within
current borders, historical roots are disregarded. According
to this view, history is lifeless; it has been lived through
and reached its end. Moreover, positivism, which applies
universal laws to society, presents fact as the only unchangeable
truth. This sexist and biased science explains
history, politics, society, economy, culture, art, aesthetics,
and other topics of the social sciences according to its understanding
of power. The attitude of the existing sciences
towards women, nature, and all the oppressed is biased.
Women scientists, feminist movements, and academics
have made important contributions with their research and
critical analyses, which strengthens our work on jineology.
Valuable work has exposed the male analysis of history.
Moreover, there are women’s universities, women’s studies
departments, and women’s research centers around the
world. It is one of the main objectives of jineology to build
a bridge between these important achievements. From the
perspective of women, it is important to work together to
build an alternative field of social sciences, to establish the
system of women’s studies, to overcome the current dispersal,
to strengthen scientific flow and the intersections.
The Kurdish Women’s Movement rates the twenty-first
century as the century of women and peoples. The question
of gender equality and equality for all the oppressed
has never appeared as pressing before. A corresponding
organization and the development of alternative systems
and structures is inescapable. An extensive system analysis
and the overcoming of sexism are in our view important
goals. In this context, the Kurdish Women’s Movement posits
jineology as both a solution to the greatest paradoxes of
our age and a method for the development of the spiritual
world of women.
Jineology presents a proposal of radical intervention in
the patriarchal mindset and the patriarchal paradigm. In
this sense, jineology is an epistemological process. Its aim
is to provide women and society direct access within the
realm of knowledge and science currently controlled by the
rulers. The goal is to pave the way towards the roots and
identity of women and society, which have been detached
from their truth. Women should create their own disciplines,
reach their own interpretations and meanings, and
share these with all of society.
The Kurdish Women’s Movement began to construct
the field of jineology in 2011. It is building an educational
system for women and society, including women’s academies.
Discussions are regularly held on topics such as
women and the social sciences, women and economics,
women and history, women and politics, women and demographics,
feminine ethics and aesthetics.
It is necessary to scientifically express the existence of
women with all its dimensions as well as to comprehensively
and systematically criticize and interpret any knowledge
structures relating to history, society, nature, and
the universe more generally. Because the woman leads a
social and historical existence that has its origins in nature,
the definition of female existence requires a radical and
profound change of knowledge and spirit. From the historical
colonization of the feminine spirit to her economic,
social, political, emotional, and physical colonization, a
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